@KMbappe Il n’a pas seulement dirigé les Bleus, il a rendu toute une nation fière pendant 14 ans. Merci pour tout, Didier. L’histoire se souviendra. 🇫🇷👑
Slavko Vinčić got the World Cup final. Spain had never lost a match he refereed, while Argentina’s only previous game under him was the 2-1 defeat to Saudi Arabia in 2022.
FIFA says performance throughout the tournament was the main reason for his appointment.
None of that proves bias. But after what happened in the final, his appointment and decisions deserve proper scrutiny.
I thought maybe I was just being emotional after the loss, but that refereeing felt heavily tilted toward Spain. Then I learned he had been detained during a 2020 police raid where drugs, weapons and cash were seized. He was released as a witness and never charged, so that proves nothing about the final. Still, FIFA choosing him for the biggest match feels bizarre.
Owning intelligence will matter more than merely accessing it.
If your AI can be restricted, repriced, censored or switched off by someone else, you don’t own it. You’re renting it.
The real endgame is intelligence you can buy, run, customize and keep.
@AdrianDittmann One system optimizes for shareholder returns, the other for state capability. That’s why the race looks lopsided in different places, you get better consumer AI from one and better industrial scale from the other. The frontier is shared, the loss function isn't.
Saylor gave 110 reasons why BIP 110 is a bad idea.
FYI, BIP 110 is a proposed temporary soft fork to limit inscriptions and other data spam on Bitcoin for about a year. It’s pretty divisive and has almost zero miner support so far. Saylor’s main point is that it risks Bitcoin’s neutrality.
You for or against it?
@LarkDavis Against, and miners already settled it. signaling never cleared 1% against a 55% activation threshold, deadline weeks out, zero major pools on board. Real problem, wrong instrument, a consensus change without consensus is just a chain split with extra steps.
I just saw @BalaSelvam follow me.
He is one of USA’s highest national security officers.
I would tell him to visit @reservoirfarms.
The farmers are America’s secret asset.
Automate them and save the family farm.
Why do we call it the homeland?
Because without them we are starving.
They have interesting ideas about how to sense whether their robot will get stuck in the mud ahead or not. You don’t want your robots stuck in the mud, do you?
I know a guy who built a robot on a potato farm in Idaho.
Built key parts of Niantic’s augmented reality system.
And if I were talking to Trump I would be trying to convince him to support robots.
Which include drones.
With an economic zone with big economic incentives.
But this isn’t his favorite territory so I have a big jump to get over.
Glad I don’t have your job but thankful someone is doing it.
@KMbappe Il n’a pas seulement dirigé les Bleus, il a rendu toute une nation fière pendant 14 ans. Merci pour tout, Didier. L’histoire se souviendra. 🇫🇷👑